In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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